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Netflix Inks Content Deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films

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Netflix quietly inked another film licensing deal this week. The company's Watch Instantly streaming service will now include selections from Nu Image/Millennium Films.

The movies will be available during the "pay TV window" when they are normally available on pay-per-view, which the companies said is usually several months after their DVD release.

The agreement will provide Netflix with five to 10 theatrical films per year from Nu Image/Millennium, which has produced films like "The Expendables," "Brooklyn's Finest," "Righteous Kill," "16 Blocks" and "Black Dahlia."

Two films scheduled to be available on Netflix next year include "Son of No One," a crime drama starring Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan, Ray Liotta, and Juliette Bincoche, as well as "Elephant White," a drama about a contract killer who gets swept up in the white slave trade business in Thailand, starring Kevin Bacon and Djimon Hounsou.

In August, Netflix announced a content deal with Epix that added feature films from Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM to the company's streaming lineup on Sept. 1. In July, it arranged a similar deal with Relativity Media, which produced movies like Robin Hood and Get Him to the Greek.

Earlier this month, Apple also added Netflix functionality to its revamped Apple TV, several days after Netflix made Watch Instantly available on the iPhone and iPod touch.

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